How to Be Both by Ali Smith but when Leslie Burke moves

but when Leslie Burke moves into the neighbouring farm his life changes forever

depicting men and women

A survivor of life and death

British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer: legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon

in ways they never could've predicted

How to Be Both by Ali Smith but when Leslie Burke movesHow to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double take, it's a fast moving genre bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious,